Martin Luther King Jr’s Christmas Sermon on Peace- 12 Days of Blogmas Day 4

On Christmas Eve 1967, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a Christmas sermon at his home congregation of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. King had been asked by the Canadian Broadcasting Company to deliver a series of five lectures for their Massey Lecture Series and the sermon was broadcast as the... Continue Reading →

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Revisiting Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

On Easter weekend, fifty-five years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sat in a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama and penned a letter that continues to hold significance culturally, socially, and spiritually. While in jail, Dr. King had been handed a newspaper that contained a letter from white Alabaman clergymen making an argument that although... Continue Reading →

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